{"id":6501,"date":"2017-03-21T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T21:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2017-03-21T14:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T21:38:48","slug":"6501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/6501\/","title":{"rendered":"Use emotions in your writing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Count-Dracula-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6502 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Count-Dracula-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">&#8220;Readers covet an emotional experience above all else. When you write scenes, use all the methods you can to help your readers feel the emotions you want them to have\u2014sadness, anger, confusion, mistrust, love, lust, envy, greed and so on. If you want readers to hate your character, show him being despicable to someone who doesn\u2019t deserve his wrath or to someone he supposedly loves. The more you draw readers in to the emotional experience, the more they will engage, and the more likely they\u2019ll want to read your next book.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Excerpted from the September 2016 issue of Writer\u2019s Digest magazine <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">There are over 300 <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\">prompts on The Write Spot Blog<\/a>. Choose one and practice incorporating emotions in your writing. For example:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Physical gestures can reveal emotions . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=4541\" target=\"_blank\">Prompt # 211<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just write!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &#8220;Readers covet an emotional experience above all else. When you write scenes, use all the methods you can to help your readers feel the emotions you want them to have\u2014sadness, anger, confusion, mistrust, love, lust, envy, greed and so on. If you want readers to hate your character, show him being despicable to someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[6,105,329,342,10,11],"class_list":["post-6501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s43Dj8-6501","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}